In part 1 of this series, we discussed the pro and cons of Release Management for VS2013 and scratched the surface of how we are going to use it with Dynamics AX. As that post has been there for a while, new updates have been available for Release Management (RM from now on) adding some […] Read More...Posted in ALMDynamics Ax.

In a previous post I mentioned Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 but I didn’t take the time to go through the capabilities and why I was using it. We have spent some time on creating automated builds for AX and these are up and running for while now using the code activities from Joris De […] Read More...Posted in ALMDynamics Ax.

Today I was experiencing this error again when working a new Hyper-V with imported demo data in AX 2012 R3: Failed to create a session; confirm that the user has the proper privileges to log on to Microsoft Dynamics In a previous post, I stated a solution for this, but today, the script in that post […] Read More...Posted in Dynamics Ax.

Small post and to the point I wanted to point out a small detail that I was forgotten today in AX2012. When you want to add custom logic to a ListPage form, you might want to write your own custom ListPageInteraction class. So what you need to is just create a class that extends from […] Read More...Posted in Dynamics Ax.

Last week I was playing around with LifeCycle Services and tested out the ‘Cloud hosted environments’ feature. This is an awesome feature that will save many of you some hours in prepping demo virtual machines. (For now, it is only able to deploy a template environment suited for demo purposes, but more templates will be […] Read More...Posted in Windows Azure.

In Release Management for Visual Studio 2013, you can customize your tools and actions to work with. The last few days I was creating a Release template for use with Dynamics AX 2012. One of the actions early in the template is backing up the database. ( Of course you need to backup first ) […] Read More...Posted in Dynamics Ax.

Today I experienced this problem while importing models from the build machine into one of the developer machines: The given value of type String from the data source cannot be converted to type nvarchar of the specified target column. A quick search on the internet took me to this blog post that explains the importance […] Read More...Posted in Dynamics Ax.

Hello everybody! I’m very happy to announce Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Services, published byPackt Publishing and authored by Klaas and myself. It is the successor of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services which was very well received. Based on the feedback you had and based on the new R2 version, we started working on an update in September 2013. We have […] Read More...Posted in Dynamics Ax.

Today I was working on creating a build process template for AX2012. I will not go into the details about the build process template and the custom activities as these activities will be covered by Joris De Gruyter later on. But still, I wanted to show you guys a nasty little problem I was experiencing […] Read More...Posted in Dynamics Ax.

Today we were present early for the second day at the technical conference. The plan for today was to follow these sessions: Data synchronisation between multiple instances using Master Data Services optimizing the performance of an AX deployment Compelling report designs Help! MRP is slow I could put all of my notes from today here, […] Read More...Posted in Dynamics Ax.